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Old 02-13-2010, 04:24 AM
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The Peter Max Corvette Collection

Great story... only in the news today because the entire collection was relocated to a new garage:

Corvette Set - Peter Max's Dream Collection Relocates - NYTimes.com

lthough the cars were a spectacular thing to find in such an unlikely location, they looked dingy. The tires were flat. The convertible tops sagged. They were layered in dust so thick that cat prints were clearly visible from 20 feet. In the grime obscuring the rear windows, someone had written the year of each car — ’53, ’54, ’55 — a complete set of Chevrolet Corvettes all the way up to 1989.

What a shame, my friends usually said; someone ought to be taking care of those cars. Maybe, my father told me, you could talk to the owner — see if he’d let you care for them.

Typing “Brooklyn” and “Corvettes” into Google quickly pointed me to the cars’ back story: they were the prize in a contest sponsored by VH1, the cable music channel, in 1989. The contest awarded the whole lot to one winner, Dennis Amodeo, a carpenter from Long Island.

Mr. Amodeo might have won the Corvettes, but he didn’t own them for long. Before taking delivery, he sold all 36 to Peter Max, the Pop Art icon, who bought the collection for an art project. When the project was back-burnered, the cars were stored in several locations around New York City before arriving in the garage of my building.
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Old 02-13-2010, 11:45 AM
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Gross neglect of collection. He should have asked some volunteers on vette forum to come clean.











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Here's the original article from 2005 in New York Magazine

How Peter Max's Dream Left 36 Corvettes in the Dust in Brooklyn
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